Lawlor v. Orlando

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a psychotherapist did not owe a legal duty to an outpatient client who committed suicide notwithstanding the fact that the plaintiff's expert opined that the psychotherapist had failed to act in accordance with the relevant standard of care
• holding a psychotherapist had no duty for the suicide of a patient in a noncustodial setting
• affirming grant of summary judgment for psychologist, noting that there was no evidence of suicidal tendencies by decedent during treatment, declining to impose duty on psychologist treating client in an outpatient setting

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

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  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-12-30· cited 32×
• Joseph S. Chirillo, Jr., M.D. v. Robert Granicz, etc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2016-08-25· cited 19×
• Sweet v. Sheehan
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-03-24· cited 7×
• Cheri Surloff, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Dr. Arthur B. Surloff, etc. v. Regions Bank and Mark K. Anderson
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-11-18· cited 7×
• Granicz v. Chirillo
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-02-19· cited 5×
• Kelley v. Beverly Hills Club Apartments
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-08-17· cited 5×
• Perez v. United States
  S.D. Florida· 2012-08-07· cited 5×
• Martinez v. South Miami Hospital, Inc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-04-24

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• McCain v. Florida Power Corporation
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-01-23· cited 474×
• Edwards v. Tardif
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1997-04-29· cited 54×
• Paddock v. Chacko
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-02-18· cited 33×
• Kockelman v. Segal
  California Court of Appeal· 1998-01-07· cited 29×
• Florida Power & Light Co. v. Periera
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-01-15· cited 24×
• O'KEEFE v. Orea
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-01-12· cited 11×
• Paddock v. Chacko
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-12-07· cited 9×
• Garcia v. Lifemark Hospitals of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-10-20· cited 8×
• Dillmann v. Hellman
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1973-10-05· cited 6×